Slaves to fashion
Subtitle: black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity
By: Monica L. Miller.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780822345855; 9780822346036
Subjects: African American men -- Clothing -- History; African American men -- Race identity; Fashion -- United States; Dandyism -- United States; Clothing and dress -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stylin' out; title: Mungo Macaroni : the slavish swell; title: Crimes of fashion : dressing the part from slavery to freedom; title: W. E. B. du Bois's "different" diasporic race man; title: "Passing fancies" : dandyism, harlem modernism, and the politics of visuality; title: "You look beautiful like that" : black dandyism and the visual histories of black cosmopolitanism.